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We each throw away over 500 kg of waste every year — yet less than half of that gets recycled. 17 LIFE projects met to discuss ways to boost separate collection, pay-as-you-throw systems, recycling and reuse.

Europe is expanding its flagship initiative to support tech champions, as the European Investment Bank (EIB) Group, and major institutional investors and asset managers together with the support of the governments of all 27 EU countries are teaming up to mobilise up to €80 billion for investment...

New interactive platform helps policymakers, industry and researchers identify where renewable hydrogen can be developed while safeguarding water resources.

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is providing a €100 million loan to PWN, the drinking water company serving the Dutch province of North Holland. Through this financing, the EIB contributes to Dutch climate objectives and helps to safeguard the country’s drinking water supply. The loan facility...

European Commission Press release Brussels, 10 Jul 2026 The European Commission has approved, under the EU Merger Regulation, the proposed acquisition by Baker Hughes Company (‘Baker Hughes') of Chart Industries, Inc. (‘Chart'), both headquartered in the US. The approval is conditional upon full...

European Commission Press release Brussels, 10 Jul 2026 Today, the European Commission preliminarily found Meta in breach of the Digital Services Act for the addictive design of Instagram and Facebook.

European Commission Statement Brussels, 10 Jul 2026 Tomorrow, Europe pays its tribute to the memory of over 8,300 Bosniak men and boys who were killed in the Srebrenica genocide 31 years ago. Our thoughts are with the families of the victims of the genocide. We share the grief of those who endure...

European Commission Press release Brussels, 10 Jul 2026 The European Commission has opened a formal investigation to assess whether, in the context of the proposed acquisition by XXXLutz of Porta, the parties may have engaged in gun jumping, which would be in breach of the EU Merger Regulation.

ENCODE, “EASA's Noise Compliance Demonstration Evaluator”, is an MS Excel tool that can be used to calculate the noise level and confidence interval from data measured during a noise test performed in accordance with Chapter 10 of ICAO Annex 16, Volume I. The tool validates each individual test run...